PLIM Spiritual Class Notes,
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Posted to www.plim2.org
Dr. Robert Brown &
Dr. Penny Warren
Scripture Reader: Dr. Valerie Godwin
Scripture Lesson: Gen. 18:1-4; John 13:1–17; Col. 2:14-17
Topic: Footwashing, Carnal Ordinances:
Fulfilled, Moved Out of the Way, & Spiritual Reality.
Gen. 18:1-4
18 And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, 3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: 4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
John 13:1-17
13 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. 2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; 3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; 4 He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. 5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. 6 Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? 7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. 8 Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. 10 Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. 11 For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean. 12 So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? 13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. 16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. 17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Col. 2:14-17
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
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Below are some of the scriptures that Dr. R. Brown and Dr. Penny Warren addressed during their lectures. PLIM members can view entire lecture on Dropbox.
Isa. 8:20
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Matt. 5:17 - 18
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Luk. 24:24-27
24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. 25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
John 19:30
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Gal. 4:4
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Heb. 9:10
0 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Rom. 10:1-4
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Heb. 6:1-6
6 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this will we do, if God permit. 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Gal. 2:9
9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
Exo. 30:17 - 21
17 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: 20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord: 21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
Exo. 40:30 - 31
30 And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal. 31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:
John 13:4-11, See above
Elohim Text, Vol. 2, p. 31-32
Paul also attests to this (Hebrews 8:10-13; 2 Corinthians 3:2-3). Seeing then that the New
Covenant came into effect after Yahshua had been crucified and resurrected, one can understand
that Yahshua was NOT referring to the CONTENTS of the cup as the New Covenant. Furthermore,
Yahshua knew that His disciples did not discern what He was doing when He took the cup, and later
when He washed the disciples’ feet, for He said to them, “What I do thou knowest not now; but thou
shalt know hereafter” (John 13:7). He (Yahshua) had told His disciples that He had not come to
destroy the Law or the Prophets, but to FULFILL the Law (Matthew 5:17), and that is exactly what He was doing, for in washing the disciples’ feet, He was fulfilling the Law in so much as Moses told Aaron
to wash his sons’ hands and feet (also his own) before they ministered in the Tabernacle (Exodus 30:19-
21; Exodus 40:30-32). Since Aaron was the High Priest after the Levitical or Aaronite order and he washed his sons’ feet before they ministered in the Tabernacle, it was necessary that Yahshua the Messiah who is the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 7:17), wash His disciples’ feet (who were to minister in the worldly sanctuary or tabernacle) before they could become true ministers of the gospel and spread it to the world. So when Peter, not knowing what Yahshua was doing objected to having his feet washed, Yahshua replied, “If I wash thee not, thou has no part with me” (John 13:8). In other words, if Peter did not let Yahshua wash his feet then he could not minister in the worldly sanctuary, for this washing was a type of the washing of regeneration. It signified a spiritual re-birth.
Paul wrote to Titus thusly, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His
mercy He saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:5). And to the Ephesians thusly, “Husbands, love your wives even as the Messiah also loved the Church, and gave
Himself for it; that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word” (Ephesians
5:25-26). Yahshua was the Word made flesh (John 1:14), who was washing the disciples’ feet. Although
the communion of the Messiah’s body and blood and the washing of the disciples’ feet took place physically before the crucifixion of Yahshua, their real spiritual meaning and significance did not come of effect until the Day of Pentecost, when the New Testament became of force. Hence, one sees these physical acts displayed in our chart series, in the heart after the crucifixion on the Day of Pentecost. Please note that we have mentioned IN THE HEART, and not as physical acts. That is what Yahshua was referring to when He told His disciples that they would know what He was doing (when He washed their feet) hereafter (that is, when the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Day of Pentecost).
Eph. 5:25
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Rev. 1:5, 7:14
5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Heb. 10:22-25
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
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